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Archive |2022-10-31 09:15:09
Punjab CM announces Blue Line public transport project from Kalma Chowk to Old Airport

“I am giving a news to the journalists that yesterday we decided to launch Blue Line project that will start from Model Town and end at the Old Airport, passing through Garden Town, Data Ganj Bakhsh shrine and other areas...
This project will be constructed on Build Operate & Transfer (BOT) basis in funding collaboration with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on two percent infrastructure loan interest,” the chief minister explained...
Archive |2022-03-21 19:09:59
PTI moves March 27 power show in Islamabad from D-Chowk to Parade Ground

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf on Monday changed the venue of its planned March 27 power show in Islamabad from D-Chowk to Parade Ground, hours after Islamabad Inspector General of Police (IGP) Qazi Jamilur Rehman told the Supreme Court that section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure — already in force in the capital — had been broadened to include the Red Zone area...
"Earlier, PTI Senator Faisal Javed Khan, too, had tweeted that...
Pakistan |2022-06-10 15:55:01
PTI marchers proceeded toward D-Chowk on 'directions of highest command', Islamabad IG tells SC

Islamabad Inspector General of Police Dr Akbar Nasir Khan on Friday submitted a report to the Supreme Court, detailing the events leading to PTI workers' arrival at D-Chowk during the party's 'Azadi March' which ended on May 26...
In the report, the police chief said the crowd was "organised to enter D-Chowk under the PTI leadership who had reached Express Chowk with the intent to proceed further toward D-Chowk as per the directions...
Pakistan |2022-08-09 14:45:00
Shahbaz Gill 'abducted' from Banigala Chowk in Islamabad, PTI leaders claim

PTI leader Shahbaz Gill has been "abducted" in Islamabad, according to party vice president Fawad Chaudhry and others...
Chaudhry, in a tweet, stated that Gill was picked up from Banigala Chowk by unidentified personnel in cars with missing number plates...
Archive |2017-11-20 06:54:39
Qavvali at the chowk

The Pakistan Chowk Community Centre (PCCC) on Saturday evening organised a qavvali performance by Subhan Ahmed Nizami at the chowk...
One doesn’t know whether the people who run shops around the chowk had any idea as to what was about to take place there...
Pakistan |2015-04-17 06:41:24
Footprints: D-Chowk commission

A storm has descended upon Islamabad overnight, with whipping winds, cloudbursts and lightning...
But the piles of mud, dug out to create the underground tunnel for the construction of the metro-bus project at D-Chowk, are still there on Thursday morning...
Archive |2017-08-17 07:01:55
Pakistan Chowk Community Centre inaugurated

KARACHI: As Pakistan Chowk is a symbol of the city’s rich cultural and historical fabric, the inauguration of the Pakistan Chowk Community Centre (PCCC) on Wednesday was another step by concerned citizens and activists to reclaim the space long usurped by increasing violence, hoards of waste and gentrification...
She said that the project became a part of the lives of those living near and far from Pakistan Chowk...
Archive |2017-05-06 01:33:54
Work begins on renaming historic Fowara Chowk

BAHAWALPUR: In the light of the court order, the process to change the name of Fowara Chowk to Khatm-i-Nubawat Chowk has been initiated...
It was first affixed at Sadiqgarh Palace – the residence of the Nawab of Bahawapur -- but later in 1918 he had it installed at the chowk...
Pakistan |2015-08-11 19:05:52
Police official killed in blast at Quetta's Gawalmandi Chowk

QUETTA: A police official was killed and another critically injured when a huge explosion rocked Gawalmandi Chowk in Quetta, DawnNews reported on Tuesday...
"We would not bow down before miscreants," Bugti told reporters at Gawalmandi Chowk area, where the blast went off...
Archive |2016-08-26 06:41:44
Mukka Chowk minus Altaf Hussain

KARACHI: Mukka Chowk with the symbolic golden fist attributed to the first prime minister of Pakistan Liaquat Ali Khan’s furious gesture towards India, and which over the years people saw as Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s symbol of strength located in the centre of their stronghold Azizabad, was on Thursday found mysteriously stripped off all the posters and pictures of the party founder Altaf Hussain...
Later, in the evening it was also...
Archive |2016-03-30 06:44:33
Full mobile signals at D-Chowk

ISLAMABAD: Though mobile phone services have been suspended across the city to hinder communication between the supporters of Mumtaz Qadri, who are staging a sit-in at D-Chowk, the only place in the federal capital where there is full cellular reception is D-Chowk...
When asked, Mr Raza agreed that mobile phone signals were strong at D-Chowk and that protesters had no problems communicating...
Blogs |2015-08-13 19:25:58
August 14 preparations: The sea of green at Pakistan Chowk

This is the Paper Market at Pakistan Chowk, where hundreds of vendors have set up stalls, selling special merchandise to celebrate Pakistan's 68th Independence Day...
Being here at Pakistan Chowk, amidst those sights and sounds; seeing people purchasing flags and badges of their beloved nation, with speakers around me blaring national songs – along with the nostalgia, there is a profound sense of comfort in all this...
Pakistan |2016-01-14 14:30:13
45 illegal money changers arrested from Peshawar's Chowk Yadgar market: SP City, FIA

PESHAWAR: Forty five people were arrested in a joint operation on Thursday in Peshwar's Chowk Yadgar currency market which is believed to be a hub of illegal money changers...
Faiz Market and Warid market inside Chowk Yadgar's Sarafa bazaar were also sealed in the joint raid conducted by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), Counter-terrorism Department (CTD) and police, FIA Assistant Director Qazi Abdul Hameed said...
Archive |2016-03-05 06:46:28
Fawara Chowk fountain to be replaced with flowerbed

RAWALPINDI: The garrison city is going to lose its landmark, the centuries-old fountain at Fawara Chowk, as the Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) has decided to fill the fountain’s pond with earth to plant flowers and trees...
Six roads branch out from this square: Jinnah Road to Saddar, Liaquat Road to Murree Road, Iqbal Road to Committee Chowk, Raja Bazaar Road to Pirwadhai and Gunjmandi Road to Kashmiri Bazaar...
Archive |2016-04-02 01:34:58
D-Chowk flash in the pan?

So another D-Chowk protest sit-in, after causing losses to the tune of millions of rupees to the state and considerable anxiety to the citizens, ended with no more than a vague ‘verbal’ assurance to the protesters that their demands will be considered...
Remember what happened when Tahirul Qadri, along with several thousand devotees, was allowed to set up camp in D-Chowk before the last elections...